1. Page  1 Honours Project Name: Moses T Nkhumeleni Degree: Bachelor of Business Science 4

2. Page  2 Research Topic  Title: The development of Mobicents-based billing system and a new billing framework.  Supervisors –Professor Alfredo Terzoli –Mr Mosiuoa Tsietsi

3. Page  3 Background Information  Services offered by convergence group –IPTV, Video on demand, Voice services, Location based Services  Traditional strategies of billing are unsatisfactory.  Innovative ways of billing these services is required. –e.g. Location based services  Billing strategies –Volume based, time based, subscription based

4. Page  4 Project Aim Develop a billing system Investigate the new paradigms of billing Produce a suitable billing framework

5. Page  5 Other Tools  A2Billing –Focused on post paid and prepaid billing –Mainly for voice services billing

6. Page  6 Tools used  –Open source –Certified for JAIN SLEE –Allows creation of billing and call control services  Diameter charging SDK –Used to incorporate billing into systems –Developed by Ericsson

7. Page  7 Conclusion  Traditional billing is unsatisfactory  Innovative billing strategy required.  The tools used

8. Page  8 Questions